FMA Gathering at Hop Gaah Kung Fu AcademyOctober 24, 2015 We would like to thank everyone for attending and especially the Hop Gaah Kung Fu Academy for hosting the event. ﻿It was a great training and sharing with everyone. We hope to do it again. Thank you Sayoc Global without your influence and inspiration, transferring the lessons and techniques could not have been done without you. We are deeply honored and to be a part of a great community of FMA enthusiasts and a great organization.

﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Albany Sayoc would like to thank the Hop Gaah Kung Fu Academy on October 25, 2014. We were one of the three FMA systems being presented. Albany Sayoc is gracious and deeply honored to have ﻿﻿demonstrated at the Hop Gaah Kung Fu Academy. We would like to thank Sifu Steve, Tony Desiro and all t﻿﻿hose that attended and supported FMA.﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿

﻿﻿HISTORY﻿﻿

Sayoc Kali

Sayoc Kali is a Filipino system named after the family who developed their blend of edged weapon martial arts. The word, “Sayoc” is but *ONE* family’s art represented in the Filipino Martial Arts. Filipino Martial Arts has many systems and the original instructors’ last names often precedes one of three root terms, “Kali”, “Eskrima” or “Arnis”. The head of the Sayoc Kali system is Pamana Tuhon Chistopher C. Sayoc Sr. Many of the full instructors under SayocKali are current or retired law enforcement officers. Others have worked security. They teach real world application against the hostile world of knife attacks. Sayoc Kali stresses the importance of responsibility for one’s actions, and informing the public of the dangers of edged weapons.

Kali

Worldwide, the Filipino martial arts are usually called one of three terms, “Kali”, “Eskrima” or “Arnis”. With hundreds of years of armed conflict between many cultures, Kali is the consolidation of their vast combative influences. A sampling of these cultures include the Malaysians, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Arabs and the Philippine archipelago’s numerous Indigenous tribes. Kali pooled together the proven fighting techniques of Europe, the Middle East and Asia into a single effective martial art.

THE TRAINING GROUPAlbany Sayoc is a martial arts training group located in upstate New York Capital Region. It is formulated from members of the surrounding community through their shared common interest of Sayoc Kali. Sayoc Kali is a Filipino system named after the family who developed their blend of edged weapon martial arts. It is our purpose and goal to spread awareness of Sayoc Kali and FMA to martial arts enthusiasts and practitioners in the upstate New York Capital Region.